[Gllug] openboot on a sparc via minicom

[Rich Walker]

Nix <nix at esperi.org.uk> writes:
>
> I expect there's no way to beat commodity PC hardware into sanity in this
> area? :(

You could probably splice a PIC into the cable, set up to only let BREAK
through if the preceding characters matched a specified string.

I believe the mod chips for game consoles something like this - one
version I heard of added an extra data stream into an existing one, so
the system sees a magic code it is looking for. Because they don't know
which magic code to transmit, they do them all in sequence ...

>
> /me hates hardware

It's even worse when you build it yourself (goes back to kicking robots)

cheers, Rich.

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